'The Simpsons': It turns out your favorite episode was ... about 100 episodes. None of them, uh, hit a homer, but all of them were hits

View full sizeAP Photo/Foxseries regulars Marge Simpson, right, and Homer Simpson, center, are shown with their new neighbor, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in the 500th episode of " The Simpsons."

While the volume of the reader response was what Montgomery Burns might refer to as "excellent," the sheer number of episodes to choose from -- and the fierce loyalty attached to them -- led to an outcome Homer Simpson might best describe as "D'oh!"

We asked you to come up with your favorite episode of "The Simpsons," with No. 500 being unveiled on Sunday, and you came up with your favorites, all right: 112 of them. One had four votes, three managed three votes (out of approximately 150 submissions), 12 hauled in two. You can do the math as to how many others received one (while keeping in mind that two people HATED every episode and several others just mentioned their favorite character instead).

But enough.

Here's the list:

Four votes:

"Homer's Enemy": You're in good company. This is a favorite of both Matt Groening and Ricky Gervais, too, and involves Frank Grimes, a hardworking guy who, furious with Homer's lazy ways, declares himself his enemy. It ends with one of them dead. Guess who (and this isn't a "Treehouse of Horror" episode, so it should be easy).

Three votes:

"El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" ("The Mysterious Voyage of Homer"): After a couple of Guatemalan insanity peppers, Homer goes on a journey with a coyote voiced by Johnny Cash.

Noteworthy: Alison Krauss recorded a special theme song for the episode, which features the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, as himself.

What you said:

"Our favorite episode is one in which our son, Michael Chabon, appears at a literary event along with Gore Vidal, Jonathan Franzen and Tom Wolfe. Michael wrestles with Franzen and appears to win." -- Dr. Robert and Dr. Shelly Chabon

"'HomR' (with a backward 'R'). Homer gets smarter after having a crayon from his brain removed but ultimately decides he was happier/better off dumb. Favorite line, as Moe reinserts the crayon with a tack hammer, 'Extended warranty? How can I lose?'" -- Terry Henderson

"I've been watching 'The Simpsons' as long as I can remember, and I'm actually counter-intuitively 100 percent certain about my favorite episode: 'Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment.' Everything about the episode is classic, from Rex Banner's humorless yet ineffectual pursuit of Homer as the beer baron ('I'm not gonna lie to you, Marge ... So goodbye!'), to what is arguably the finest Simpsons quote of them all: 'To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.'" -- Ryan King

"As a retired geometry teacher I used the episode 'Homer 3D' in my classes as an example of higher order dimensions. ('Homer 3D' was part of a 'Treehouse of Horror' episode.) My favorite line was from Professor Frink, who said, 'It is obvious to even the most dimwitted individual, who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topography, that Homer Simpson has vanished into the Third Dimension.' He then explains by taking a square and extending on the 'Imaginary' z axis to represent a cube. Most of the Simpsons writers have science or math backgrounds, and they embed all kinds of things only a math person would understand." -- Mike Wilsey

On the other hand:

"My favorite episode? EVERY ONE that I have never seen! I find the show to be harebrained, disgusting, stupid and a waste of my time." -- Tim Morlok